Pictorial post-card.



K. MUNSTER. PIOTORIAL POST CARD.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 26,1906.

Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

, Zwenibr;

rnE numus PETERS 50., wasumcron n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

KARL MUNSTER, OF MUNICH, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM OF BECKER dz KOLBLINGER, OF MUNlOH, GERMANY.

PIOTORIAL POST-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 30, 1909.

Application filed October 26, 1905. Serial No. 284,495.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL Mims'rnn, bookbinder, citizen of Germany, residing at Munich, Bavaria, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pictorial Post-Cards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a new or improved composite pictorial post-card or the like constructed in such a manner that when a covering card is withdrawn, a plurality of pictures or the like on cards arranged underneath the said covering card are unfolded and brought into View.

The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of the comosite card, and Fig. 2 an elevation of the atter.

According to the present invention the pictures 0 arranged underneath the covering card (Z are connected with the latter by means of a strip of linen or the like a in such manner that they lie one in front of, or above the other, the u I per edge or border of each picture slight y overlapping the corresponding edge or border of the picture below it. The strip of material referred to may be fastened by means of adhesive or otherwise to the back of the principal supporting card 6, and to the lower exposed border or edge of each of the pictures, so that when the covering card is withdrawn, the pictures open out in the manner of a fan or book. The covering cardhnay be connected to the principal card by means of guides 6, preferably of card-board, with which the said .princ'ipal card is provided, or vice versa, or by other means which will allow one of the cards to be slid over the other and the pictures.

Any desired number of pictorial cards can of course be used, and the said cards can be of any desired kind.

The essential feature of the invention lies in the arrangement of pictorial cards or the like, behind or below a slidable covering card, said pictorial cards being adapted to fold out in the manner of a fan or book when said covering card is withdrawn.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is 1. A pictorial postcard or the like comprising a body portion, a sliding member, and cards flexibly secured to the body portion.

2. A pictorial postcard or the like comprising a body portion, a sliding member, and cards flexibly secured to the body portion with their lower edges stopped.

33. A pictorial postcard or the like comprising a body portion, a sliding member, a :llexible member secured to the body portion and extending upwardly from its point ol connection therewith, and cards mounted on the flexible member, each succeeding card from the innermost to the outermost having its lower edge slightly above the lower edge of the preceding one.

l. A pictorial postcard or the like comprising a body portion, a sliding member, means connecting the body portion and sliding member, and cards mounted on the connect ing means, substantially as described.

5. A. pictorial postcard or the like comprising a body part, a card adapted to slide in and out of the same, a flexible member connected to the sliding card and to the body part, and a plurality of cards hinged or connected to the said llexible member, substantially as set forth.

6. A pictorial postcard or the like comprising a frame and body part, a card adapted to slide in and out of the same, a flexible membcr connected at one end to the said sliding card and at the other end to the body part, and a plurality of cards hinged or connected to the said flexible member, substantially as set forth.

7. A pictorial postcard or the like comprising-a l'ramc and body part, a card adapted to slide in .and out 01' the same, a flexible member connected at one end to the body part and a plurality of cards hinged or connected to the said flexible member, intermediate of its ends, substantially as set forth.

In testimony wl'iereol' l hereunto allix my signature in the presence 01' two witnesses.

KARL MUNSTER.

l/Vitnesses:

ULYSSES J. BYWATER, Gnone KonNnn. 

